Rtop is a powerful tool designed to monitor system resource usage in real-time. It's available for different operating systems and can be used on servers and desktops. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Rtop on POP! OS Latest.
Before we begin, you'll need to ensure the following:
To install Rtop, we need to install some essential libraries and tools. We can do this by running the following command in your terminal:
sudo apt-get install gcc make cmake libsensors-dev libncurses5-dev libhwloc-dev
To download the Rtop, we need to clone it from the Github repository of the project. You can do this by running the following command in your terminal:
git clone https://github.com/rapidloop/rtop.git
This command will clone the Rtop repository in the current directory where you executed this command.
Once the Rtop is downloaded, we will build and install it on our system. By default, Rtop can be compiled and linked using the make command. To do this, we need to go inside the Rtop directory that we cloned in step 2 using the command:
cd rtop
Once this is done, we can build Rtop by running the following commands:
make
sudo make install
The make command will compile the source code, and sudo make install will install Rtop on your system.
To verify Rtop is installed correctly, run the following command in your terminal:
rtop
The above command will run the Rtop program, and you should see the screen showing you the real-time resource usage of your system.
That's it! You have successfully installed Rtop on POP! OS Latest. You can now use Rtop to monitor your system resource usage in real-time.
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